“ Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ”
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“ I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically. ”
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“ 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck… ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. ”
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“ The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them. ”
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“ The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them. ”
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“ Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. ”
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